uhhh,, just had an appendectomy (appendix removed laposcoptically (?) Crispin would know what I mean. Bill was for $68,357.00, Insurance paid 63K and change. Guess who got to pay the rest? Insurance didn't even really pay that 63K and change, they wrote it down with the hospital and doctor.
Now, if YOU don't have insurance and YOU are walking down the street, minding YOUR own business and a branch falls out of a tree breaking YOUR arm or shoulder. Who is going to pay to have YOUR arm or shoulder set? Who is going to pay for YOUR xrays? Who is going to pay for YOUR problem? Do YOU think some kindly hospital will just say, "that's alright TH, we know it wasn't YOUR fault, we'll just be fine paying for YOUR problem."
Or are YOU going to go all lawyer on the tree?
Dave it there are lots of programs and ways to get medical care if one can not pay.
Florida Legislature declares that the state and the counties must share the responsibility of assuring that adequate and affordable health care is available to all Floridians. Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature to place the ultimate financial obligation for the out-of-county hospital care of qualified indigent patients on the county in which the indigent patient resides.
-Program Description
Florida Medicaid is the state and Federal partnership that provides health coverage for selected categories of people in Florida with low incomes. Its purpose is to improve the health of people who might otherwise go without medical care for themselves and their children.
-General Program Requirements
In order to qualify for this benefit program, you must be a resident of the state of Florida, a U.S. national, citizen, permanent resident, or legal alien, in need of health care/insurance assistance, whose financial situation would be characterized as low income or very low income. You must also be either pregnant, a parent or relative caretaker of a dependent child(ren) under age 19, blind, have a disability or a family member in your household with a disability, or be 65 years of age or older.
-Florida law contains a general requirement that nonprofit hospitals must provide charity care and care to Medicaid patients.
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our health care system is a money making scam...... Your saying they wrote off a lot of the costs of your stay, but real question is how much was your bill padded to begin with, they wrote off what never should have been there to begin with....
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I am not buying it.............
